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Utube to sue YouTube amid site confusion ...

Discussion in 'Google' started by JackR, Nov 2, 2006.

  1. pr0xy122

    pr0xy122 Peon

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    #41
    I would sue too. Fair enough, if you had your site crash by a huge multi billion dollar website wouldn't you be pissed too? Plus its not like youtube has little money.
     
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  2. JackR

    JackR Peon

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  3. LadyHoldem

    LadyHoldem Well-Known Member

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    #43
    Gotta say.. I'm with the guy that says utube should rebrand.. been the one to make that typo many many times :p
     
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    bacanze Peon

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    #44
    Agree wil you, they should turn to traffic into $$$, and if they dont want to, ill buy the domain lol.

    edit: I think ill contact them
     
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  5. Ohene

    Ohene Guest

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    #45
    we should google-bomb www.utube.com with the term: MORONS

    Who's with me? :)
     
    Ohene, Nov 3, 2006 IP
  6. jackburton2006

    jackburton2006 Peon

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    #46
    Yeah, um, that's my point. I wouldn't sue Google; I would take advantage of the traffic instead. ;)
     
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  7. dastuff

    dastuff Peon

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    #47
    Yes, it takes being droped on your head as a child to sue over an increase in traffic lol.
     
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  8. PinotNoir

    PinotNoir Peon

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  9. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    #49
    Do you know what I would do with that many hits....certainly not sue..
     
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  10. poseidon

    poseidon Banned

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    #50
    Looks more like a publicity gimmic to me. UTube can not be that stupid as well as there lawyers who must be knowing the reality and the most likely outcome of the case.Oh by the way talking about the traffic, I don't know much about UTube but I guess the traffi is pretty much useless for them(they claim - The Largest Stocking Dealer of Used Tube Mills & Used Rollformers in the World 125,000+ Square Feet of Used Tube Mills and Used Rollformers).
     
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  11. Feelfox

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    #51
    ahahahahah. A good suggestion~:D :D
     
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  12. Computer(Jew)

    Computer(Jew) Well-Known Member

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    #52
    Silly people.
    The don't need to monetize their site's traffic , it's not their business . "Cashing in on traffic" ?
    What cash ? At best , that site would make no more than 1800$ a day, and that is if they actually put some thought into it.
    That is less than your local coffee shop, and if you woull look at their website ...
    About their company :
    "
    We have one of the largest selections of used tube and pipe mills in the world. Utilizing over 125,000 square feet of warehouse space, we also stock rollformers - cut to length - slitting lines and more. We have the resources and expertise to satisfy your company's machinery needs.
    "
    You would understand that the company probably makes no less than half a million in sales per day, and doesn't need to enter into the micro-money niche of online advertising. A single person that contacts them through the website is x10,000 more valueable than any visitor, and screening "I want videos !" idiots could make them miss real business opportunities.
     
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  13. john269

    john269 Notable Member

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    #53
    I agree with you hear. If you have been running a successful business and then something like this happens and you get alot of useless traffic, you don't just start changing what you have done for your business in the last few years and just put adsense or other ads up.

    But then again, I don't think it is Youtubes fault either. How do you know that when you buy a domain, that it is similar to another persons. I have never heard of utube and most probably youtube hadn't either.
     
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  14. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #54
    Ummm the trademarks are not similar in any way shape or form.

    Date of Corporate inception would likely show utube to have existed longer and by continually promoting their trademark could not be sued by youtube.

    Domain Registration date goes to utube as well and as someone thought was funny earlier utube has been there 10 years prior.

    utube.com

    ICANN Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
    Created: 26-oct-1996

    youtube.com

    ICANN Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
    Created: 15-feb-2005

    This is not the grounds for a meritless lawsuit as causing any harm to any company is grounds for civil and or criminal action.

    The tubes are used in manufacturing processes worldwide...

    These guys make more money than most of us here.

    The fact they have been marketing over the Internet for as long as they have shows they are not idiots but a leading edge innovator as many larger corporations are just coming to understand the power of the Internet.

    Some of you need to jump back a bit......Mad4 not intended for you....
     
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  15. Computer(Jew)

    Computer(Jew) Well-Known Member

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    #55
    :(
    why ?

    ..
     
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  16. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #56
    Apparently some people are still wearing diapers that post here, and the need to be immature seems to rule their mind. :rolleyes:
     
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  17. DoA

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    #57
    HAHAHAHA


    I'll buy their domain from them!

    morons - take the traffic and monetize it!
     
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  18. Sem-Advance

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    #58
    ???

    A moron is someone who does not own a real business nor generate millions of dollars in sales... telling a company that does.... what they would do :rolleyes:
     
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  19. Computer(Jew)

    Computer(Jew) Well-Known Member

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    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #60
    Good research ComputerJew however US Law does not require a Trademark claim be filed in order to make the trademark yours.

    Prior US Legal findings have stated that in order to claim trademark rights the company must actively use the trademark.

    If the trademark is not used... then it can be taken by another company.

    Also you might want to see if Utube had registered this as a ServiceMark...
     
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